If I were affected by the radical action of these fat cats, I would form a group of people who were likewise affected and sue. Apparently, the students and the unions that back them have the time and money to make amends:

As the largest group representing striking students rejected the
government's latest offer, QMI Agency learned that the organization is
receiving money from outside Quebec.

At least two Ontario branches of the Canadian Union of Public
Employees (CUPE) voted in April to give the Quebec student association,
ASSE, a total of $30,000.

ASSE is the main group in the larger student federation called
CLASSE, which represents roughly half of the 170,000 students on strike
in Quebec.

CLASSE announced Sunday morning on Twitter that it unanimously
rejected Quebec Premier Jean Charest's latest tuition offer, which he
made on Friday.

Nancy MacBain, staff representative for CUPE local 3906, which
represents teaching employees at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.,
confirmed to QMI Agency on Sunday that the local recently voted to give
$10,000.

Wayne Dealy, chair of the CUPE union representing education
workers at the University of Toronto, told QMI Agency that his local
gave $20,000.

Just days after Palin’s endorsement, which gave the Fischer campaign the statewide name identification it craved, Fischer surged in the polls,
taking votes from Bruning and Stenberg, and is now within the margin of
error before Tuesday’s primary. Palin’s endorsement seems to have
coalesced the anti-establishment and anti-Bruning forces around Fischer.

I expect the media to be in a surly mood tonight. After months of manufactured "GOP War on Women" silliness, a new CBS/NYT poll (!) finds Romney leading Obama 46-44% among woman voters. Mind you, that isn't GOP woman or even independent women, but ALL women voters.

More importantly, today's poll finds a notable shift among women in
just the last month. In April, Obama was leading Romney by 6% among
women. No other group saw an 8 point shift in their support.

Turns out women's top concern is the same as men's: The Economy. All
the contrived outrage about contraceptives and women's health can't mask
the fact that 73% of voters listed either the economy or the federal
deficit as their number on issue.

The Toronto District School Board may close some cafeterias, raise
the costs of continuing education and hike permit fees for after-hours
use of its facilities to make up for a $58 million budget shortfall, a
board spokeswoman says.

The board will be releasing a list of recommended cuts this afternoon
to let parents know what is on the chopping block before trustees
debate the issue at an emergency board meeting on June 13, she said.

The TDSB is facing a $110 million budget shortfall for 2012-2013.
Previously announced cuts, including slashing 200 secondary school
teaching jobs, have already reduced that gap to $58 million.

Everybody acting like affirmative action hires are something to be
ashamed of and denied, something rudely pushed aside as unthinkable, is
baffling. In every other context, affirmative action and its attendant
policies and protocols are looked upon as the secular world’s highest
forms of public virtue. Companies and institutions boast about their
so-called equity policies and minority placements. Does not every
university, in every hire, on every bulletin board, and in every online
notice — spell out every so proudly that applications from minorities
and special groups will be given “special” attention, or are
specifically urged to hire. Does this not right historical wrongs? Is
this not part of enriching the educational experience?

And yet, any suggestion that a particular individual may have
benefitted from these wonders of our modern age is treated as a slap in
the face to said individual. How can a policy be a triumph in enactment
but an insult in execution?

I think it’s because, at the highest levels of the educational
system, even those who ostensibly support the policy know it’s hollow
and false, or at least that it has outgrown what tenuous utility or
point it might once have had. Even the systems that use affirmative
action, the employers who trot it out so ostentatiously, and the
politicians who continue to maintain it, know also that it constitutes a
form of inequity in itself.

Perhaps, finally, people are waking up to the idea of how pernicious
it is to see individuals — in all their scattered, singular,
unrepeatable, distinct and uniquely shaped lives — only through the lens
of some static racial or historical construct. We steal from the glory
of individuals as individuals when we broker their careers or their
lives through this blunt and reductive category of group identity.

What do the professional identity grievance mongers have to offer the world but the incessant indignation? Perhaps not occupational or intellectual merit. Certainly not ethical merit.